A significant achievement of the human race: It succeeded in banning chemical weapons.

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67. You assume Kerry is to blame and Assad's mental state post-ArabSpring is intact.

In fact, Kerry had succeeded by 2009 in bringing Assad to the point where he would depend on his input and support in the region for Mideast peace talks. No one wanted Assad to be protected more than Kerry, to keep Assad's focus on measured leadership instead of his father's brutality, especially since Kerry had been laying the groundwork for and finally initiated Mideast peace talks earlier this year.

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In February 2009, Kerry led a delegation there to engage Syria. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told visiting US members of Congress on Saturday that the United States should ‘move away from a policy based on dictating decisions.’ Assad's guests on Saturday included US Senator John Kerry, who headed the third delegation this week to call on the Syrian president's door as Washington reviews its policies toward countries the previous administration regarded as hostile. Assad told his visitors that future relations should be based on a ‘proper understanding’ by Washington of regional issues and on common interests, SANA news agency reported,” AFP reported at the time.

AFP followed up with this report after the visit stating that Kerry believes "Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region":

“President Barack Obama's administration considers Syria a key player in Washington's efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process, US Senator John Kerry said in Damascus on Thursday. ‘Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region,’ Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a speech after meeting President Bashar al-Assad. ‘Both the United States and Syria have a very deep interest... in having a very frank exchange on any differences (and) agreements that we have about the possibilities of peace in this region,’ he said in the statement.”>>>>>

Somehow YOU have come to believe that your analysis of Syria and what has occurred is far more accurate than Kerry's.